Books: Subhuman Wasteland

"Man is the only species for whom the disposal of waste is a burden . .
. especially when he learns to include himself, living and dead, in the
list of waste products." Thus does Author Janet Frame begin a strange
book about three wasted lives in a dim world that she calls "the edge
of the alphabet." The phrase has a properly demented ring, and because
Novelist Frame, in both fact and fiction, has spent some time in
asylums, the reader at first thinks he is once more on the now
depressingly...